Blair to get US Medal of Freedom

[BooScout]

Source: BBC

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the highest civilian award in the US - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - next week.

In his last week in office, President Bush will award the medal to Mr Blair, former Australian PM John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

All three leaders had been "staunch allies" of the US, particularly against terrorism, said the White House.

The ceremony will take place at the White House on 13 January.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7812582.stm

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Tweedledee thanks tweedledum.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Bush has gone out of his way to tarnish the value of everything

US Medal of Freedom?
:rofl:

[sutz12]

2. Really.

I think he has a stamping machine in the White House cellar. Just churns them out.

:shrug:

[louis-t]

3. Sure, all his henchmen get medals.

:mad:

[sinkingfeeling]

4. See, Bush treats his lap dogs very well!

[Solly Mack]

5. lolololololololol

the farce continues...

[balantz]

6. For heroic duty in helping to free inncoent bystanders of their very own lives.

Hundreds of thousands of them.

He must be a very proud man for his accomplishments in service of the OILigarchy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. As the article points out, he still hasn't picked up the last one, after 5 years

the poodle collar tag congressional gold medal.

[Jefferson23]

8. Bush and Blair, choke on it.

[Turbineguy]

9. Maybe it will have

chrome spikes on the ribbon for that though look.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. No Pinochet or Battista on the roll of honour?

[Judi Lynn]

16. He got as close as he could with death-squad loving Dr. Strangelove, er, a, Álvaro Uribe..

http://www.pslweb.org.nyud.net:8090/images/content/pagebuilder/46194.jpg http://www.lindsayfincher.com.nyud.net:8090/news/dr_strangelove.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/42340000/jpg/_42340461_uribe2333.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com.nyud.net:8090/images/2007/10/22/world/22bank.190.jpg

[Sultana]

11. Oh my

those motherfuckers


:grr:

[tclambert]

12. Blair's will be inscribed "Best in Show, Poodle Category"

[DebbieCDC]

13. Here good little poodles, here's a treat for you

SOBs, one and all

May karma dictate that each one of them drown in oil for 10,000 lifetimes

[LeftishBrit]

14. That sound you heard was all the founders of the British Labour Party, somersaulting in their graves

Well, I suppose the American Mad King George had to reward the British Benedict Arnold.

[martymar64]

19. Churchill is spinning in his grave so quickly . . .

he's starting to generate electricity.

[Prophet 451]

24. Churchill wasn't Labour

He was a Liberal or a Tory, depending which part of his career you look at. Still, I see your point. Churchill kept us going through WWII, was one of history's great thinkers and dispensed wisdom like cigar ashes. Blair lied us into war, dispensed cliche soundbites, destroyed his party and did real damage to the country.

[vinylsolution]

15. This is Blair's reward for spreading Cheney's lies....

... about Saddam's (non-existant) WMD's.

The British public didn't fall for it, and now Blair can't even walk the streets of his own country in safety.

Maybe Bush / Cheney will go hide in exile, too.... We can only hope they're jailed first.

[snot]

17. whatever Bushco says/does, just read the opposite to know the truth.

[mrfrapp]

18. Marvelous

When Blair set sail from these British shores, Bush appointed him to be the Middle East Peace Envoy. Clearly, he's a brilliant man and deserving of any honour anyone can think of. /sarcasm.

[bluesmail]

20. All are loyal. It's his way of thanking them for being criminally loyal.

TPTB aren't even trying to hide what they have done. Must be a relief to those who have no conscience.

[edbermac]

21. I was so thrilled when Blair replaced John Major.

Tony, you let everyone down. :cry:

[Prophet 451]

22. So were we

I can remember it like it was yesterday. 1997, Labour came in with a sweeping mandate and we all thought it was the last death knell of Thatcherism. First year or so was great, then they started being more Tory than the Tories. Than the wheels came off. We thought it was a bright new day; it turned out to be "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".

[Libertas1776]

23. Wow...

the medal of freedom...what do they sell that at the Capitol gift shop now since its pretty much lost most of its prestige. Thanks Mr. Bush.

[mitchum]

25. He can wear it on his dog collar

[specimenfred1984]

26. Torturers handing out freedom medals

Only in Orwellian chimp-times.

[badgervan]

27. Bush's Awarding the misnamed "Medal of Freedom"...

... means less than winning the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. "Staunch allies" Tony the Poodle and Hardcore Howard = lapdogs.

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. How strange! A Medal of freedom from a country with a quarter of the

world's prisoners and less than 5% of the world's population. Didn't ah tell ya... there's somethin' not right with that boy...